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Participants were invited to make individual or joint commitments to help achieve the Agenda for Humanity. In addition, they were invited to align themselves to 32 core commitments developed for the 7 High-level Leaders’ Roundtables of the World Humanitarian Summit. Each stakeholders commitments are organized by commitment type in the table below.
4A
Reinforce, do not replace, national and local systems
Joint Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
375 individuals across the sector commit to collaborate across boundaries to recognise, enable and sustain local and national humanitarian capabilities and leadership. The Humanitarian Leadership Academy has endorsed this commitment. Further details can be found at https://bit.ly./WHSCommit
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- The Humanitarian Leadership Academy commits to invest in the capacity and ability of frontline responders to play a leading role in crisis anticipation, response and recovery by creating incentives through the development of evidence for international actors to work in strategic partnerships with local and national civil society organisations that build the long-term organisational and responsive capacity; and, supporting the development of national and regional networks of front-line responders and other related capacity-strengthening initiatives including national and regional research and training centres.
- Capacity
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- The Humanitarian Leadership Academy commits to investing in local and national capacity building initiatives, in order to provide access to relevant contextualised learning opportunities and contribute to their sustainability.
- Capacity
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- The Humanitarian Leadership Academy commits to undertake capacity mapping in ten of the most vulnerable locations to disasters and crises around the world, to inform capacity development and gap-filling by international and regional partners.
- Capacity
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- Commit to a new way of working that meets people's immediate humanitarian needs, while at the same time reducing risk and vulnerability over multiple years through the achievement of collective outcomes. To achieve this, commit to the following: a) Anticipate, Do Not Wait: to invest in risk analysis and to incentivize early action in order to minimize the impact and frequency of known risks and hazards on people. b) Reinforce, Do Not Replace: to support and invest in local, national and regional leadership, capacity strengthening and response systems, avoiding duplicative international mechanisms wherever possible. c) Preserve and retain emergency capacity: to deliver predictable and flexible urgent and life-saving assistance and protection in accordance with humanitarian principles. d) Transcend Humanitarian-Development Divides: work together, toward collective outcomes that ensure humanitarian needs are met, while at the same time reducing risk and vulnerability over multiple years and based on the comparative advantage of a diverse range of actors. The primacy of humanitarian principles will continue to underpin humanitarian action.
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- Commit to reinforce national and local leadership and capacities in managing disaster and climate-related risks through strengthened preparedness and predictable response and recovery arrangements.
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
- Commit to empower national and local humanitarian action by increasing the share of financing accessible to local and national humanitarian actors and supporting the enhancement of their national delivery systems, capacities and preparedness planning.
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity
4B
Anticipate, do not wait, for crises
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
- The Humanitarian Leadership Academy commits to collaborate with others to enhance countries preparedness, and accelerate this initially in forty of the most at-risk countries, so they reach a minimum level of readiness by 2020.
- Partnership
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- Commit to a new way of working that meets people's immediate humanitarian needs, while at the same time reducing risk and vulnerability over multiple years through the achievement of collective outcomes. To achieve this, commit to the following: a) Anticipate, Do Not Wait: to invest in risk analysis and to incentivize early action in order to minimize the impact and frequency of known risks and hazards on people. b) Reinforce, Do Not Replace: to support and invest in local, national and regional leadership, capacity strengthening and response systems, avoiding duplicative international mechanisms wherever possible. c) Preserve and retain emergency capacity: to deliver predictable and flexible urgent and life-saving assistance and protection in accordance with humanitarian principles. d) Transcend Humanitarian-Development Divides: work together, toward collective outcomes that ensure humanitarian needs are met, while at the same time reducing risk and vulnerability over multiple years and based on the comparative advantage of a diverse range of actors. The primacy of humanitarian principles will continue to underpin humanitarian action.
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
4C
Deliver collective outcomes: transcend humanitarian-development divides
Individual Commitment
- Commitment
- Commitment Type
- Core Responsibility
The Humanitarian Leadership Academy commits to develop a mechanism to document and share evidence on impactful learning interventions and best practice for humanitarian action.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
The Humanitarian Leadership Academy commits to investing over 50% of its total budget to identify and incubate new and existing, innovative solutions in humanitarian learning, in order to provide local and national access to contextualised learning and knowledge, and connect civil society with global and regional resources as appropriate.
- Financial
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
The Humanitarian Leadership Academy commits to launch a global digital learning platform and 10 contextualised regional platforms to increase and democratise access to learning opportunities and connect learners and service providers at the national and regional level exchange experience and evidence between such platforms and global service providers.
- Operational
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- Commit to a new way of working that meets people's immediate humanitarian needs, while at the same time reducing risk and vulnerability over multiple years through the achievement of collective outcomes. To achieve this, commit to the following: a) Anticipate, Do Not Wait: to invest in risk analysis and to incentivize early action in order to minimize the impact and frequency of known risks and hazards on people. b) Reinforce, Do Not Replace: to support and invest in local, national and regional leadership, capacity strengthening and response systems, avoiding duplicative international mechanisms wherever possible. c) Preserve and retain emergency capacity: to deliver predictable and flexible urgent and life-saving assistance and protection in accordance with humanitarian principles. d) Transcend Humanitarian-Development Divides: work together, toward collective outcomes that ensure humanitarian needs are met, while at the same time reducing risk and vulnerability over multiple years and based on the comparative advantage of a diverse range of actors. The primacy of humanitarian principles will continue to underpin humanitarian action.
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need
5A
Invest in local capacities
Core Commitment
- Commitment
- Core Responsibility
- Commit to empower national and local humanitarian action by increasing the share of financing accessible to local and national humanitarian actors and supporting the enhancement of their national delivery systems, capacities and preparedness planning.
- Change People's Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need Invest in Humanity